Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

The unfed mind devours itself.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.